Feb 17, 2012; 10:04 AM ET
After wreaking havoc across Madagascar, Tropical Cyclone Giovanna continues to spin off the country's southwestern coast.
Southern Madagascar will remain at risk for locally damaging winds and flooding rain through the weekend.
Earlier this week, Giovanna roared across east-central Madagascar as
it made landfall near Toamasina with 120-mph winds, equivalent to a
Category 3 hurricane. At least 65 people are confirmed dead with over
11,000 homeless, according to Newstime Africa.
Friday morning, EST, the center of T.C. Giovanna was located in the
southern Mozambique Channel, about 465 miles south-southwest of
Antananarivo, a city in central Madagascar. Highest sustained winds were
estimated to be 50 knots, or about 55 mph, with storm movement slow to
the southeast.
Accuweather.com meteorologists predict that the storm will trek
slowly eastward, weakening as it approaches land on the more sparsely
populated southern coast of Madagascar on Sunday.
Giovanna is expected to dissipate entirely by Monday.
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